Lucas Schaefer

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025 Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…

Love to see Jack Smyth's cover for THE SLIP among the "best of the best." Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social!

One gratifying aspect of spending this year going around the country promoting THE SLIP is getting to talk about the Austinites I know instead of the smarmy tech pod bro contingent who contribute little to the city and won’t be missed when they leave.

Agreed

I believe as soon as you move to a city you are part of that place and have a right and a responsibility to involve yourself in its future, but a bit of humility and one or two critical thinking skills are also nice

One gratifying aspect of spending this year going around the country promoting THE SLIP is getting to talk about the Austinites I know instead of the smarmy tech pod bro contingent who contribute little to the city and won’t be missed when they leave.

If you believe Democrats need new ideas hard to think of a worse choice than this person

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

The Best Debut Crime Novels of 2025 This year’s debut thrillers were fierce, fast-paced, and unafraid, heralding the entrance of powerful new voices, and demonstrating the incredible flexibility inherent to crime fiction’…

Congrats to @carsonfaust.bsky.social, @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social, @victorsuth.bsky.social, Rav Grewal-Kök, Kristen L. Berry, Marisa Kashino, Austin Kelley, MahaKhanPhillip, Amran Gowani, Liann Zhang, Elizabeth Kaufman, Nic Stone, Zoe B. Wallbrook, and Lauren Haddad!
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If you’re a “centrist” Democrat who claims to want a big tent but doesn’t want anyone in it to your left, you don’t believe in creating a big tent!

The Best Debut Crime Novels of 2025 This year’s debut thrillers were fierce, fast-paced, and unafraid, heralding the entrance of powerful new voices, and demonstrating the incredible flexibility inherent to crime fiction’…

Our End-of-Year Best Books countdown continues, with our list of the Best Debuts of 2025!
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ICE agent shoves a home security camera as she approaches a home. Masks aren't enough. They don't want you to have any record of their behavior. Even the tiniest threat of accountability is too much. Keep recording anyway.

The 20 Best Books of 2025 The must-read novels, compelling memoirs, and incredible histories that captivated us this year.

Thanks for including THE SLIP as one of your 20 best books of the year, Town & Country! www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

(Yes I’m wearing the tux a second time. They’re not cheap!)

Thanks to everyone who told me I forgot to take the tags off the tux rental before the event! (No one. No one told me. I’m noticing now lol).

“I long to live in a world where I have no agency, make no decisions, and bow down unthinkingly before the laziest slob on the planet.” -reactionaries lecturing on masculinity

"Demeaning" trans people is exactly right. Their goal--and what they're most able to easily achieve--is our humiliation. The imposition of indignities. They also hope that, as humiliations often do, it exposes us to ridicule. Perhaps even violence. (e.g. forcibly outing people on their IDs).

"we're having a crisis of masculinity!11!" - a man-baby dork

As writer who had no idea how to write a mystery when he set out, I’m honored to be a @crimereads.bsky.social best book of 2025 alongside these heavyweights (especially @blacktopkid.bsky.social & Eli Cranor, both of whom I was reading as I wrote to try to figure out what the hell I was doing!) 🥊

The Slip: A Novel A Novel

If you need an incentive to buy THE SLIP from your local independent bookstore, it's currently taking 2-3 weeks (!?) to ship via Prime but @bookshop.org can have it to you in a few days.

The long game of getting a craft book out of the wonderful @elizmccrack.bsky.social ends in a celebration.

A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction Notes on Writing Fiction

Hello! Today is the publication day of my new book, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction.

To celebrate, I have already received an email from a fake book club, offering to feature it in their Saturday Showcase.

(You can order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-lo...)

Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025 It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…

Love to see THE SLIP on this A+ list from @literaryhub.bsky.social. "A tragicomic Texan picaresque par excellence." Thanks Lit Hub!

There will be a version of Democrat who, when/if this era is over, will support “moving on” in the name of “unity” rather than investigating, prosecuting and punishing those perpetrating these crimes & I very much look forward to supporting their primary opponents

Collective, racist punishment.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

Required reading for every American

100 Notable Books of 2025

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So if you’re deep into that first book project and have something to say but are feeling a twinge of irritation/futility as these year end lists come out (been there) - keep going. 🥊

These lists are so subjective and I think if I’ve learned one thing over the 12 years it took to write THE SLIP, it’s that the only thing we truly have control over are the words on the page…

Thanks @nytimes.com for naming THE SLIP one of their 100 notable books of 2025. A fun aspect of promoting this book has been meeting other writers hawking their wares across the country, and it’s great to see many of them here too.

Books We Love Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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